INTRODUCE TOPIC
I use Anna O early in the course to show how Freud developed some of his distinctive ways of working and thinking. I describe Little Hans when students read selections from Totem and Taboo, showing how his understanding of Little Hans' displacement of oedipal affects onto horses parallels displacements onto the totem. I make passing reference to the Rat Man and Dora, but I haven't found time to discuss Freud's cases in much depth.
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In the research class one of these is central (except Schreber for practical reasons). In the sexuality class, I don't mention them.
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I don't review these in class, but answer questions if students have encountered these elsewhere.
Matthew Westra
Psychology Coordinator
MCC-Longview
Matthew.westra@mcckc.edu
http://www.mcckc.edu/~westra/WESTRA.HTML
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When students struggle with how odd the cases and people seem, I come up with modern-day versions of the people and issues to normalize and contextualize. This generally helps.
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I don't assign these to undergraduates, because the theory is archaic. I have had psychiatry residents request them, and I will then assign one. Inevitably, I have to reinterpret it all using structural theory and obj-rels theory, which is tiring and somewhat confusing to the residents.
Jerome S. Blackman, M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Virginia Wesleyan College
Jsbmd1@cox.net
jblackmanmd@aol.com
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Extensive notes and diagrams
for teaching Freud's case of Dora are available. Most of the diagrams are
flow charts showing the energy flow, conflicts and defense mechanisms in PowerPoint
slides.
The Case of Dora (Power Point slides converted to pdf file)
Theories of personality notes on Dora
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Link to Dr. Lothane's website, "Daniel Paul Schreber: The most famous patient in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis". http://www.lothane.com/
Henry Lothane, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
schreber@lothane.com
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Breuer, J. (1893/1955). Case I: Fräulein Anna O. In Studies on Hysteria. New York: Basic Books, 21-47.
Freud, S. (J. Strachey, trans.) (1950). Totem and Taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Lothane, H. (1992). In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry. The Analytic Press.
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